Dignity Quotes
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A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
Aristotle -
I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
Rand Paul
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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.
Ernest Hemingway -
I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
Ingrid Betancourt -
The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.
Ed Parker -
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.
Maggie Nelson -
Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.
Sally Mann -
Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.
Cyrus the Great
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
William Hazlitt -
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
Daisaku Ikeda -
The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.
William O. Douglas -
...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.
Darlene Cates -
I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women.
Vladimir Putin -
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
Nicolas Cage
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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
J. G. Holland -
If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.
Evan Esar -
It is important this campaign be waged on a higher level of dignity and character. We will continue to move forward with our positive message for Pennsylvania.
Lynn Swann -
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
Martha Gellhorn -
If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
William Shakespeare
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Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.
Umar -
Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization.
Manning Marable -
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
Aristotle -
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
Maria Callas